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Which Industries are shifting the Beveridge Curve?
Barnichon, Regis; Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
The negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the job openings rate, known as the Beveridge curve, has been relatively stable in the U.S. over the last decade. Since the summer of 2009, in spite of firms reporting more job openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in...
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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940
Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...
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Models as Measuring Instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
- provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
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Who can predict their own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition
d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Ciftci, Esen Erdogan; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity
d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/4/875.short">'The Journal of Human Resources'</A>.<p>Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal...</p></a>
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A Cognitive Approach to Organizational Complexity
Fioretti, Guido; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
of an organization. We argue that to further our understanding it should be understood in terms of human cognition of a …
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Management Science</I>. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528.<P> This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...</p></i>
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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Spatial Activity and Labour Market Patterns
Russo, Giovanni; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
The spatial activity patterns of firms in a multi-regional system are closely connected with the structure and evolution of regional labour markets. Based on an extensive data set (cross-section) on commuting flows in Germany, this paper aims to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial...
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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